Uganda Leader Orders Disputed Land Be Allocated to Sugar Company
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ordered that Madhvani Group, owner of the country’s biggest sugar producer, be allocated a piece of disputed land on which it plans to build a second factory to produce the sweetener.
Madhvani plans to spend as much as $70 million buying 40,000 hectares (98,842 acres) of land in the northern district of Amuru and building the plant. Politicians in the region want the deal blocked because the company didn’t negotiate directly with the local community, according to Simon Oyet, one of the lawmakers who opposed the purchase.